All Alternatives articles – Page 37
-
Special Report
Special Report ESG: Carbon Risk, Yielding results
Green, or climate bonds, are gradually becoming a mainstay in the market. Jonathan Williams assesses who is active in the market, whether it remains dominated by government-backed bonds – and who is assessing the impact of capital raised in this way
-
Special Report
Special Report ESG: Carbon Risk, How green are your govvies?
On the face of it, sovereigns and their debt should be very sensitive to carbon and climate-change risks. Mike Scott finds that uncertainty around data and the lack of a price for carbon is holding back the discounting of those risks
-
Special Report
Special Report ESG: Carbon Risk, What if we could capture carbon?
There is a big question begged by the ‘stranded assets’ thesis: What if there were no link between burning fossil fuels and emitting greenhouse gases?
-
Features
Briefing: Pension Funds and ETFs, Still in the future
Exchange traded product providers claim improving costs make them better than derivatives or traditional passive solutions for both tactical and strategic investment. Brian Bollen finds Europe’s pension funds yet to be fully convinced
-
Special Report
Special Report ESG: Carbon Risk, Borderless potential
Energy security concerns have pushed international power connectivity up the European agenda. Jonathan Williams finds early pension fund investors attracted by stable cash flows in the low-yield environment
-
Special Report
Special Report ESG: Carbon Risk, Not a binary choice
Paul Younger draws attention to the irreplaceable role fossil fuels play in many industrial processes, as well as their importance for economic development, to suggest that divestment is not necessarily a responsible course of action
-
Special Report
Special Report ESG: Carbon Risk, Two tactics are better than one
As investors come under increasing pressure on fossil fuels, Gordon Noble and Matthew Kiernan urge them to remember that divestment without engagement is as futile as engagement without the threat of divestment
-
Special Report
Special Report ESG: Carbon Risk, Accounting for carbon
To avoid putting garbage into the atmosphere, companies need to stop putting garbage into their accounts and investors need to stop putting garbage into their risk models. Elisabeth Jeffries finds a complex web of carbon disclosure protocols making that a big challenge
-
News
Dutch pension funds commit €750m to mortgages
Three large schemes make commitment to Dutch Mortgage Funding Company
-
News
APG, PGGM expecting extension for pension funds' EMIR exemption
Asset managers say Dutch schemes stand to lose most from derivatives rules
-
News
Cornwall Pension Fund chooses Man for hedge fund strategy
Fund invests in Man FRM’s LGPS-specific fund with sliding fee scale
-
News
PFZW drops hedge funds from strategic investment portfolio
Second-largest pension fund in Netherlands cites complexity, cost and SRI concerns
-
News
Swiss pension funds struggle to adjust to low-interest-rate environment
Railway scheme PKSBB negotiates change to technical parameters while APK rejigs asset allocation
-
News
Derivatives clearing: Smoke but no fire
In Brussels, there are two types of hell, Jeremy Woolfe explains
-
News
Additional risk does not pay off over very long term, study shows
Larger allocation to ‘risky’ assets fails to produce higher returns on average over last seven years, PPCmetrics data shows
-
NewsChurch of England boosts forestry stake
Church Commissioners grow UK forestry stake to £100m following acquistion of over dozen forests
-
News
Governance changes, regulatory action needed to grow infrastructure holdings, says OECD
Think tank’s survey of sovereign and pension funds worth $7.8trn finds only 1% of allocated to asset class
-
News
ESMA critical of ‘unsatisfactory’ asset-backed security assessment
Credit ratings agencies’ assessment of structured finance instruments unsatisfactory and must be improved
-
News
Brussels pledges to cut regulation to attract infrastructure capital
Publication of 2015 Work Programme sees revised IORP Directive retained, emphasis on removal of regulatory hurdles to infrastructure investment
-
News
Institutional investors to cut risk exposure with shift into value
Survey of institutional investors shows control over potential rate rises, positive outlook for equities
